This is supposedly not a transcript, but an executive summary. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s what I’m seeing other people saying.
The President of Ukraine is at the White House today. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Euphonious_Polemic:
Just in case anyone was still wondering if Fox News is actually the Republican Party News:
They are simply repeating the White House talking points verbatim, as if they came up with it themselves, without saying that they were fed this information directly.
The was an early episode of The West Wing entitled “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc ”, which is to say: why would you assume that Fox News is getting their talking points from the WH rather than that the WH is cribbing their talking points from Fox News?
Steve_MB
September 25, 2019, 6:26pm
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Who knew email was so complicated?
Dewey_Finn:
Why the request for the Ukrainians to work with Rudy Giuliani? As far as I know, he has no official role in the government? I think he’s just an attorney working for Trump (as opposed to someone like the White House Counsel, which works for the President).
Giuliani is the new fixer. Trump used to say, “my guy Michael Cohen will call you.” Now it’s Giuliani.
John Dean tweeted today that Giuliani is not Trump’s lawyer. He’s not being paid. He’s Trump’s co-conspirator.
Can’t find any news confirming this.
I know the President of Ukraine is a former comic. I didn’t realize he was also a fucking circus clown. How is this advantageous to him? Is he really going to help Trump “manage” the fallout?
Defensive_Indifference:
Giuliani is the new fixer. Trump used to say, “my guy Michael Cohen will call you.” Now it’s Giuliani.
John Dean tweeted today that Giuliani is not Trump’s lawyer. He’s not being paid. He’s Trump’s co-conspirator.
To be fair, Giuliani knows that DJT stiffs his lawyers and contractors so he could have taken the case on a pro bono basis.
QuickSilver:
Can’t find any news confirming this.
I know the President of Ukraine is a former comic. I didn’t realize he was also a fucking circus clown. How is this advantageous to him? Is he really going to help Trump “manage” the fallout?
They had their press conference live on ABC.
Acting DNI threatened to quit if White House blocked his testimony.
Maybe if he had a server in his house …
He wasn’t at the White House - there’s a big multinational event at the United Nations in New York this week that he was coincidentally at.
He did his best during the (prescheduled) press availability but there were a couple of times he clearly wanted to crawl out of his own skin and run stage left.
It would appear that they met in New York at the UN and not at an official White House visit.
Trump repeated that there was “no pressure” on Zelensky but added that the Ukrainian leader should do “whatever he can do in terms of corruption.” Trump added, without evidence , that the money Hunter Biden made while a board member of a Ukrainian company constitutes corruption. The U.S. president also added,** again with no evidence**, that he believes Hillary Clinton’s emails that were deleted from her server could be in Ukraine. He also defended his decision to involve his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in the requests he made to Ukraine. Guiliani does not have an official job at the White House.
My bolding
Which makes CFSG the developer. Who is the stop-bath?
damn, I am fucking old
Defensive_Indifference:
Dewey_Finn:
Why the request for the Ukrainians to work with Rudy Giuliani? As far as I know, he has no official role in the government? I think he’s just an attorney working for Trump (as opposed to someone like the White House Counsel, which works for the President).
Giuliani is the new fixer. Trump used to say, “my guy Michael Cohen will call you.” Now it’s Giuliani.
John Dean tweeted today that Giuliani is not Trump’s lawyer. He’s not being paid. He’s Trump’s co-conspirator.
That’s the thing. The claim is that the president was acting completely aboveboard, so why the involvement of someone outside the government?
Schiff on Trump’s phone call with the Ukraine:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that “those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader.”
“This is how a mafia boss talks,” he added. ”‘What have you done for us? We’ve done so much for you, but there isn’t much reciprocity.’”
"Do us a favor, though," the president said, according to a call summary released by the White House.
zoid
September 25, 2019, 7:27pm
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Near as I can tell no one has been able to perform that function
Umm. You got a link for that insanity?
What sucks is that despite all this speculation and evidence-gathering, it’s a moot point, because Republican Senate Majority.